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#poll#polls#tumblr polls#world issues#politics#american politics#global issues#modern issues#technology#united states
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Personally I think that that one Black Mirror Episode was uncannily sharp and hit the nail on the head about the invisible difference between AI and humans, that AI (when not fully sentient) will always have this air of lifelessness; there is a harsh clarity of the inherent disconnection between human and AI, post-intimacy. The main character, the widow, was so grief-stricken by the sudden death of her lover, so much so that when she was given the option to try out a copy of him through AI messaging, she took it. That then turned into AI calling, and thenâ a realistic human copy of her husband. During the calls sheâd become enamored by how accurately the AI (a human machine fed data on the widowâs recently passed husband) portrayed her late husband. The compassionate responses, camaraderie and banter, the thoughtful adviceâ it all felt like him. They cooked together, talked, had intimacy. She fell for him, even knowing he wasnât human. But after maybe just a week or so, the wife was having an emotional crises. She stood at a windy cliff overlooking the hard waves of the ocean below, crashing and foaming white on blue. She was going to push the AI model off, as she was feeling so hurt and confused and betrayed that he was imitating something that was once realâ onlyâ thatâs what it was: an imitation. âŠI havenât watched the episode recently, but I wholeheartedly believe that this was an accurate portrayal of what could happen in the future. How Black Mirror could conceptualize this years ago, I donât know. Itâs amazing.
#black mirror#ai#ai thoughts#ai ethics#ai philosophy#black mirror analysis#black mirror discussion#ai discussion#philosophy#technology#techinnovation#technews#modern issues#chaotic academia#science#scientific inquiry#modern inquiry
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People need reminding that men's life expectancy went up when women could divorce their husbands because the till death do us part was taken quite literally in more than a few cases.
#modern issues#to quote another post#sometime your grandmas first husband sometimes had help falling off a ladder
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Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go âreally? Thatâs so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"
#linguistics#gen z slang#english#as people in the reblog pointed out!#most gen z slang comes from (or was appropriated from) aave#honestly I was just excited to talk about how people in my field actually get excited about non standard uses of English#instead of ridiculing speakers#and I tagged incorrectly and didnât point out the very real issues of language and power and appropriation inherent in modern slang#in that much of it was appropriated#and even that which experiences language change in the wider culture still originated in aave#aave is just as linguistically valid as any other English dialect because it is a proper language#and the grammar is incredible!!!#habitual be is fantastic and an excellent example of how a richer case system or a certain case can render an adverb unnecessary#and the phonology is just beautiful#anyway Iâm very sorry#I fucked up
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single dad!Price just makes me picture odd hour check inâs, random video chats at the ass crack of morning but price and his little boy look so happy to each other that itâs worth it đđ
NO LITERALLYđ
like you've worked for helicopter parents before (and promptly never worked for them again), but price is one of the best kinds of helicopter parents. and it's mainly random texts of "how's the lad doing today?" or "did he eat his weetabix? if he didn't, try mixing it with his yogurt" so you can never get mad at him for it.
not even when it's almost midnight during one of your overnight stays and price is video-calling you, sweat caked on his forehead and his body rid of his gear at the safe house for the night.
"hey, sweetheart. i know it's real bloody late, butâ"
and you're immediately cutting him off with a stern "john, stop, i know you just wanna see him," before you're pushing up out of johnâs bed and padding across the bedroom to where liam's crib is tucked in the corner.
lowering the camera down, you focus on liam's sleeping face, the fat of his cheek smushed against the crib mattress and his pacifier hanging loosely from the corner of his parted lips. his hair (what little he has of it) is mussed up and splayed out across the soft skin of his forehead as he sleeps peacefully, his stuffed lionâs wrinkled head tucked safely beneath his chubby arm.
you donât see the soft smile price wears on his cheeks, eyes full of fondness and fingers clumsily trying to take a screenshot as you let the camera stay on liamâs face for a bit longer before pulling it back towards you. thatâs when you see the soft smile stretch into a grateful one.
âyouâve got the magic touch or somethinâ, yâknow that? yâknow how many babysitters iâve gone through jusâ âcause the little one couldnât go tâsleep without me?â priceâs body eases all of its tension as his eyes once again focus on yours again, watching you make your way back towards his bed and flopping down quietly onto it. âthank you for lettinâ me see him, sweetheart.â
#call of duty#cod mw2#john price x reader#john price cod#john price#captain john price#john price x you#captain price#task force 141#iNs Captain John Price đ#call of duty modern warfare#price cod#cod mwii#cod#john price smut#iNs daddy issues series âŁ#cod john price#captain johnathan price#captain john price x you#captain john price x reader#iNs asks âș
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Idk what possessed me to draw Soap like this, yet here we are
#Iâm a firm believer in Johnny secret anger issues#look at him#call of duty#call of duty mw3#cod#call of duty modern warfare#cod mw3#cod fanart#john soap mactavish
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putting my prediction on record now that the coming decade is going to see the rise of viral-marketed fancy at-home water filtration systems, driving and driven by a drastic reduction in the quality of U.S. tap water (given that we are in a 'replacement era' where our current infrastructure is reaching the end of its lifespan--but isn't being replaced). also guessing that by the 2030s access to drinkable tap water will be a mainstream class issue, with low-income & unstably housed people increasingly forced to rely on expensive bottled water when they can't afford the up-front cost of at-home filtration--and with this being portrayed in media as a "moral failing" and short-sighted "choice," rather than a basic failure of our political & economic systems. really hope i'm just being alarmist, but plenty of this already happens in other countries, and the U.S. is in a state of decline, so. here's praying this post ages into irrelevance. timestamped April 2023
#apollo don't fucking touch this one#serious post#not a shitpost#hope i forget about this post and have no reason to ever look back on it one day#fyi i'm aware that access to potable water is already a major issue in parts of the U.S. yes i know flint michigan exists#i'm saying that this issue is going to GROW unless local & federal governments work together to fix it.#so it's a matter of if we trust them to fix it. And well--do you?#what are the chances the government just denies there's a problem until the water actually turns brown#at which point it's already been common knowledge for years and people have just become resigned and that's our new normal#i'm mean come on. how many of us already believe that we're being exposed to dangerous pollutants we don't know about and can't avoid#like that's pretty much just part of being a modern consumer. accepting that companies will happily endanger your life for a few pennies#and the most you'll get is like a $50 gift card as part of a class action rebate 20 years down the line#probably the history books will look back on Flint as a warning and a harbinger that went ignored#luxury condos will advertise their built-in top-of-the-line filtration systems--live here and you can drink water straight from your tap!#watch the elite professional class putting $700 dyson water filtration systems on their wedding registry#while the rest of us figure out how to fit water delivery into our grocery budget while putting 90% of our paycheck towards rent#also eggs are $15
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People are always looking out for Ghost afraid to piss him off. But during that they neglect to realize that the true problem is Soap. He's got a smile that can light the room but he is the quickest to anger. And his anger and temper are hot and explosive just like his bombs.
Soap will be the first one to hold a knife to your throat because you said something that he didn't agree with. GHOST is the one to pull him off.
#call of duty modern warfare#cod modern warfare#john soap mactavish#simon ghost riley#simon riley#Soap has anger management issues
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honestly who could even want a season 3 this is literally 'the everything else' of gravity falls. i'm not left wanting. i'm feasting on everything from the book of bill and thisisnotawebsite. the only thing i want is to rewatch the entire show again
like it leaves it in 'our' (the readers) hands. what do YOU see in ciphers corpse? is it the end? is it only the beginning? we were invited to participate both in the book (literally, with it making asks to write this, put your hand here, etc) and the website code hunt. its up to you. here are the pieces of everything after the end. have fun.
#ITS ALSO ABUNDANTLY CLEAR ALEX STILL HAS NO PLANS FOR A S3 AND IS STILL BITTER OVER DISNEY S&P#LIKE WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO PUT HIM THROUGH THAT TORTURE MACHINE AGAIN LOL#gravity falls#book of bill spoilers#congratulations on transforming bill from tumblr sexyman of old#(cool wacky ubermensch)#to the tumblr sexyman of the modern era#(tormented poor little meowmeow utter failure with Issues)#like thanks i was relatively normal abt bill cipher as a teen#now its like fuck hes JUST like my other blorbos huh#shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
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Reading older comics like I love this, this is so dumb đ and reading modern comics like I hate this, this is so dumb đ.
#golden/silver age comics are ridiculous/zany/fun#you read it through the lens of like cartoon logic#but that same feeling doesn't apply to modern comics (although waid managed to bring it in during his dick/kara date issue)#so everything in modern comics that is bad is just bad alskdja and doesn't have that cartoon logic excuse#do you know what i mean alskdja
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modern au aang in which he is up to date on all the Latest Memes(tm) vs modern au zuko who is extremely offline and has no idea what he's talking about.
(modern au iroh who knows more about what the kids are into than his nephew does, who simply lives in a constant state of ??????????)
#he might as well be speaking a foreign language as far as zuko is concerned#zuko might have anger issues but he's never once felt compelled to make a twitter account#or a facebook. or an instagram. or a tiktok.#atla modern au
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There was a longer, better article about this, but it's interesting that virtually all fantasy is reactionary in the sense that the heroes are questing (almost, of course there are exceptions) to turn things back to what they were. Either stopping a great evil that is going to destroy the current world which is Fine As It Is, or living in a dystopian evil empire and try to return the Old Kingdom or the Old Republic which was good and nostalgic. It's always "the Old Days were better" or "we must preserve our current way of life", never "we will build a better future beyond our current society".
#cosas mias#one could say 'yeah fantasy is nostalgic they wouldn't bring up modern issues like that' but why?#you could say make a fantasy set in a rennaissance *techlevel* and still involve characters igniting revolutions and change#fantasy encompasses the enterity of human imagination#no need to make it stuck in the Middle Ages forever
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So, fun fact:
John Constantine got a transfusion of some demonic blood to repair his injuries at one point (since the demon needed him healthy to complete a certain task), and it left some lasting effects on his body/soul.
I donât yet have a single specific plot idea for how to have it contribute to the plot of a DPxDC crossover fic, but i feel like it could absolutely do something.
Like maybe itâs treated similarly to resurrection by Lazarus Water and leaves him a type of unhealthy liminal, but since this is demonic in nature, the corruptionâs effects/treatment are way different from Lazarus stuff.
Or maybe it makes him just inhuman enough to fall slightly under the Ghost Kingâs control, leading to him being dragged into ghostly politics by that.
Or maybe he actually dies and becomes a ghost, but the blood makes him into a sorta half-ghost half-demon entity. Though the soul contracts would likely muddy the water even further with any âdyingâ stuffâŠ
#dp x dc#dpxdc#dc x dp#dcxdp#danny phantom x dc#danny phantom x dc crossover#dpxdc john constantine#dp x hellblazer#could possibly also make use of the âpsychic AIDsâ comparison the comic itself made (in issue 9)#but like idk about that because i think it could come across as offensive/in bad taste#even in the original comic the comparison being used with Constantineâs condition felt⊠a bit off#and thatâs with it being a thing from the late 80s that was generally supportive of gay rights and people with AIDs and whatnot#like. that it was probably better when put in comparison to its time#so i suspect bringing it up in a modern work would be worse by virtue of standing out more (even if the treatment is a bit better)#idk. maybe itâd still be doable well with the right care. but i donât know if itâs worth it.
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i am of the firm belief that neither ghost or gaz cared very much for soap when he first joined the 141
gaz had never met him before, all he knew was the guy was just a little bit of a prick. he was incredibly talented, gaz would give him that, and heâd never been outwardly rude to anyone that gaz had heard of, but oftentimes his confidence bled into something just short of arrogance, soap always seemed to be the one ranting and raving about his achievements when everyone else spoke of their mistakes. in laymanâs terms: he was full of himself in a way that would surely get him killed.
ghost; however, had met him before. theyâd worked together some three times before price recruited soap. ghost knew of his skill, knew that sunny disposition got quieter at night when soap thought he was alone, knew soap would thrive with them; but god, if ghost could shove his thumbs into those all-seeing, all-knowing crystal eyes heâd do so in a heartbeat. he hated the way they seemed to burn straight through the heavy material of his mask, how they could look into his own eyes and hold infinite knowledge of his broken psyche by the time they flick to some other uninteresting member of his former squadron. it was horror, to be understood so wholly.
but then gaz got hurt, four days of medically induced coma hurt, and when he jerked awake at, if the clock on the shitty hospital tv was to be believed, 2 in the morning there was soap. he looked disheveled: hair a tangled mess, dark circles only worsened by the shadows of the mostly unlit room, and covered in scattered butterfly sutures. his head was leaned on his bicep, slumped over the lowered tray connected to gazâs bed.
under his head were the blood and tear stained pages of his open journal, a gorgeous portrait of gaz sketched onto the yellowed sheets with sleep deprived rantings in the margins on how soap could have saved him if heâd just been quicker. gaz slips it out from under him, only feeling a tiny bit like an ass for flipping through the leather bound soul of his comrade, but soap had stolen his favorite shirt so it stood to reason he should take something back. the entire 141 is scribbled on in the pages, buried between bomb schematics and scenic landscapes and soapâs scrawled insecurities. something shifts as he soaks in the words, months of feeling like an outsider and desperate tries to be as good as his teammates.
itâs different, gaz thinks as he flips back to his own face, being in the mind of john mactavish.
but then ghost is walking past priceâs office and soap bursts out, pushing past him with flushed cheeks and hurried apologies, practically sprinting in the direction of his shared room. ghost, loathe to admit it, was worried, afraid that the first real human connection aside from garrick heâd had in years was going to ripped from him before heâd even started putting time into it. he didnât want to lose something good, not again, so he follows him, rushes to catch him before he slams the door in ghostâs face.
soapâs shoving clothes into his duffle when ghost slips inside his room, noticeably holding back tears as he rambles to himself. for a minute ghost is stuck, unused to such blatantly shown emotion, but then he takes a step, sets a gentle hand on soapâs shoulder and asks whatâs going on, heart thudding against his ribcage.
âmy ma..â soap croakes, and heavy sobs break up whatever else he was going to say. he doesnât have to, ghost knows, probably better than anyone else.he does the first thing that comes to mind: he drags soap into his chest, wraps his whole body around him like he can protect soap from the hurt. the sergeant doesnât deserve to feel that hollowness in his chest. soap crashes into him like a wave to the shore, balling his hands into ghostâs hoodie and hiding his face in ghostâs collarbones. ghost had never been one for physical closeness, but there was something different about being in johnnyâs arms.
there was an obvious difference in their demeanor toward him in the weeks to come, but neither really cared about how it happened, just that it did, and now they can seek each otherâs warm, pink tinted gaze when soap makes a fool of himself.
#im gonna be sick#mmm big men with emotional issues learning how to be in love mmmm#call of duty#cod#cod modern warfare#john soap mactavish#john mactavish#soap mactavish#simon ghost riley#simon riley#kyle garrick#kyle gaz garrick#gaz cod#ghost cod#soapghost#ghostsoap#soapgaz#ghostgaz#gazghoap#soap x ghost x gaz
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Punk!Simon Riley, who wears guy-liner and sews skull patches on all his jackets because he thinks itâs funny. Who always wears the same pair of beat up DrMartens and who constantly has leftover chips of black polish on his nails.
Just punk!Simon. Thatâs it. Thatâs the tweet.
#he rides a bike too#that goes without saying#i have issues#anyway enjoy the brain rot#simon ghost riley#simon ghost x reader#simon riley#call of duty#call of duty modern warfare#simon riley x reader#simon riley x you#cod modern warfare#cod mwii#cod#cod mw2#ghost cod#cod x reader#cod mw3#konig cod#john soap mactavish#ghostsoap#ghost mw2
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I am begging on my knees for more Babysitter!Price SMAU. Itâs really good. Feel free to ignore this ofc, donât wanna make you feel pressured! All your SMAUâs and other works are freaking amazing!
i am so sorry that this part took so long. i have been so busy and tired recently )): so the creative motivation to write this was a little lacking. hopefully y'all like it ;-;
[ DADDY ISSUES ] đđ the text series where price hires you as his babysitter
‷ part đđ one , two , three , four đđ pairing: single dad!price x babysitter!reader đđ cw: price to the rescue, slightly possessive!price?, price being jealous of some random man
#call of duty#cod mw2#john price x reader#john price cod#john price#captain john price#john price x you#captain price#task force 141#iNs Captain John Price đ#iNs requests â#call of duty modern warfare#price cod#cod mwii#cod#john price smut#iNs SMAUs â§#iNs daddy issues series âŁ#cod john price#captain johnathan price#captain john price x you#captain john price x reader
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